Five by Endo
Subtitle: stories
By: Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel
Contributors: Gessel, Van C
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Endō, Shūsaku, -- 1923- -- Translations into English
Description: "Here gathered in this small volume are five of the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo's short stories exemplifying his style and his interests, presenting, as it were, Endo in a nutshell. "Unzen," the opening story, touches on the subject of Silence, Endo's most famous novel - that is the torture and martyrdom of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan. Next comes "A Fifty-year-old Man" in which Mr. Chiba takes up ballroom dancing and faces the imminent death of his brother and his dog Whitey.

In "Japanese in Warsaw" a business man has a strange encounter; in "The Box" an old photo album and a few postcards have a tale to reveal. Finally included is "The Case of Isobe," the opening chapter of Endo's wonderful novel Deep River."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Unzen; title: A fifty-year-old man; title: Japanese in Warsaw; title: The box; title: The case of Isobe